GCSE OCR Physics B Paper 1

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#1. What is a battery?

#2. Conventional current goes from:

#3. What is this component?

#4. The melting point of gallium is 29.8˚C and the boiling point is 2204˚C. What state is gallium at 25˚C?

#5. If a car is moving but the forces are balanced – what will happen to the speed of the car?

#6. What is gamma radiation?

#7. Which of the following is an advantage of crude oil?

#8. Which of the following can affect braking distances? ? 5

Select all that apply:

#9. Is oil a fossil fuel?

#10. How can electrons change orbits?

#11. Which of these is an example of transverse waves?

#12. Which of the following devices do we use to measure weight? ? 2 answers

Select all that apply:

#13. When moving from air to glass, what will happen to a wave’s speed?

#14. What is the longest wavelength of visible light

#15. What the the most dense state of matter?

#16. What is displacement?

#17. What is this component?

#18. Why are metals good conductors?

#19. What is the force acting on a conductor carrying current at right angles to a magnetic field when: magnetic flux density = 0.005 T , current = 3 A and length of wire = 150m?

#20. Which of the following are ways that a magnetic field of an electromagnet can be made stronger?

Select all that apply:

#21. An electric motor does 70,000 J of work in 200 s. Calculate the Power of this action. Include the units and answer to 1d.p ? Do not include your workings in your answer

#22. Do radio waves have longer wavelengths than microwaves?

#23. What is the shortest wavelength of electromagnetic radiation

#24. What is the name of the phase change from liquid to gas?

#25. Wave speed is linked to wave frequency and wavelength by which equation?

#26. What is the purpose of the earth wire in a plug?

#27. How can you reduce the effect of friction in the chain on a bicycle?

#28. What wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum is useful for security marking?

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#29. This image shows Flemming’s Left Hand Rule. Which of the following answers are the correct interpretations of the rule? ? Select three answers, one for each finger

#30. What is an isotope?

#31. Switches are both a functional and a safety component of a circuit. Complete the sentence: When switches are closed, no …….. flows around a circuit.

#32. A bar magnet is a permanent magnet – what does that mean?

#33. What is the mass number of an element?

#34. True or false – electromagnetic waves cannot travel through water?

#35. Is nuclear fusion renewable?

#36. Where is most of the mass of an atom?

#37. How do crumple zones and airbags in cars protect people inside the car in a crash?

#38. Is nuclear fission a fossil fuel?

#39. Which form of radiation is moderately ionising?

#40. Is geothermal renewable?

#41. What is Newton’s First Law of Motion?

#42. True or False – Magnetic field lines are used to show how a single north pole would move from north to south?

#43. Which of the following things were hypothesised by John Dalton in 1805? ? select 4 answers

Select all that apply:

#44. What is the purpose of fuses and circuit breakers?

#45. What do we call energy that is stored in hot objects?

#46. Which of the following best describes energy?

#47. Are gases fluids?

#48. Why is the total energy transferred to a kettle’s heating element, more than the total energy of the boiled water inside the kettle?

If you could accurately measure the movement of energy, you would always find that all of the energy is transferred. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, this is known as the Law of Conservation of Energy.

#49. What is this component?

#50. Is energy a vector or a scalar?

#51. What is the name of the phase change from solid to gas?

#52. What is the acceleration of an object that has an initial velocity of 10m/s and a final velocity of 50m/s. The object took 15s to accelerate to the final velocity.

Use the following equation:

a = (v − u)

t

#53. Vectors have which of the following quantities?

#54. A car makes a journey to the shop and back. Calculate the overall displacement travelled by the car.

#55. What is the function of a variable resistor?

#56. If a current travelling along a wire changes direction, does the magnetic field also change direction?

#57. Which of the following can be used to measure reaction times?

Select all that apply:

#58. Which of the following is a disadvantage of nuclear fission?

#59. What is this component?

#60. In longitudinal waves are the vibrations parallel or at right angles to the direction of wave travel?

#61. What state of matter has particles which are close together and move around each other?

#62. What is the function of an LED?

#63. Complete the equation for weight. W = m x ……..

#64. Which of the following is the source of oil and gas?

#65. Which of these is an example of transverse waves?

#66. What is wavelength?

#67. What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?

#68. Which descriptions are correct?

Select all that apply:

#69. What is the function of a resistor?

#70. Which is the correct definition for renewable energy resources?

#71. Which component is described: A glass tube with a thin wire inside that melts if too much current passes through it, breaking the circuit.

#72. When objects with motion collide, the total momentum will be the same after the collision as before the collision. There is no change in overall momentum. What do we call this Law of Physics?

#73. Complete the sentence: different substances may absorb, transmit, refract or reflect electromagnetic waves in ways that vary with …….

#74. How many planets are there in the Solar System?

#75. When a substance changes from a solid to a liquid, what happens to the mass?

Stays the same because there has been no change in the number of particles. We say that the mass has been conserved.

#76. What is the shortest wavelength of visible light

#77. Is weight a vector or a scalar?

#78. Calculate the change in momentum of an object that experiences a force of 350 N over 15 s. Include the units “kg m/s” in your answer

#79. Calculate the force when an object changes its momentum by 2550 kg m/s in 5 seconds. Include the units for force in your answer.

#80. The diagram shows a solenoid. Why is the magnetic field stronger along the centre of the coil than on the outside? ? Select two answers

Select all that apply:

#81. Which is the correct definition for non-renewable energy resources?

#82. Magnets have north and south poles – if north and south poles are put close together what will happen?

#83. Determine the speed of the object between 1 and 3 seconds. ? answer to 2 decimal places

#84. The equation for work done is E = F x d. Calculate the distance moved when a 650 J of work is done to move a 160 N object. Leave your answer to 1 d.p and include the units. ? Do not include your workings in your answer

#85. Is wind power renewable?

#86. Which of the following statements is correct?

#87. Is coal a fossil fuel?

#88. Which of the following describes the Plum Pudding Model of atomic structure?

#89. Ernest Rutherford fired positive particles at a thin gold foil and showed that most of atoms is empty space. Which particles did he fire at the gold foil?

#90. Which scientist proposed the Plum Pudding Model?

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